I mean, I'm sure they'd have liked to use Maxim guns like the NKVD detachments they appear to idolise, but they've made the common-sense decision to roll with the M249 instead.
... for when you want to kill a guy, and everybody living in the house behind the guy?
I mean, seriously, don't you guys mostly have wood-panel houses up that way? Not that an M2 is going to be particularly fussed about smashing through brick houses like you'd get in the UK. You've got to have serious concerns about your backstop under those circumstances.
I mean, seriously, don't you guys mostly have wood-panel houses up that way?
Correct. I saw an episode of Live PD: the cops arrived on-scene to where there had been a gunfight in the street. Some dudes with pistols fired on a guy with an AK. The pistols had 9mm rounds that went through an entire house. The AK round went through 3.
Seems perfectly common sense to me!
I mean, I'm sure they'd have liked to use Maxim guns like the NKVD detachments they appear to idolise, but they've made the common-sense decision to roll with the M249 instead.
M249 isn't crew served.
The M240 G and M2 are. That's how much over-kill we're talking about.
... for when you want to kill a guy, and everybody living in the house behind the guy?
I mean, seriously, don't you guys mostly have wood-panel houses up that way? Not that an M2 is going to be particularly fussed about smashing through brick houses like you'd get in the UK. You've got to have serious concerns about your backstop under those circumstances.
Correct. I saw an episode of Live PD: the cops arrived on-scene to where there had been a gunfight in the street. Some dudes with pistols fired on a guy with an AK. The pistols had 9mm rounds that went through an entire house. The AK round went through 3.